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Philosophy
Nov. 17th, 2015 04:38 pmI went back into his office to ask permission to switch from one course to another. “Which courses?” he said indifferently. “I’m meant to be reading Foucault, but I want to do a course on Derrida.” “Man” he replied “that’s like going from horseshit to bullshit.”
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Well, I feel better about never getting around to Foucault and Derrida. Not that it really matters. What little I saw of their work always looked opaque and unapproachable anyway, which is I why I kept my distance from them.
That quotation is from Simon Critchley writing about one of his favorite philosophy professors, Frank Cioffi. The excerpt below gives us a flavor of that philosophy and the meaning of life.
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Well, I feel better about never getting around to Foucault and Derrida. Not that it really matters. What little I saw of their work always looked opaque and unapproachable anyway, which is I why I kept my distance from them.
That quotation is from Simon Critchley writing about one of his favorite philosophy professors, Frank Cioffi. The excerpt below gives us a flavor of that philosophy and the meaning of life.
( Read more... )
